Robert W. Holley

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Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922; Urbana, Illinois – February 11, 1993)[1] was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he won for describing the structures for alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.

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  1. "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 22 March 2011.